Is Millmoor the only old ground still standing?

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Originally Posted by Brin

Roger Stone made sure that the Booths were hit hard for the way they took the piss out of RUFC.
It wasn’t the old man Ken, a stalwart of the club in its darkest days. No, blame young Ken Boorh Junior if anyone for the stupid and crass way we were forced out of Millmoor.

£17,000 a week he demanded for us to use and play at Millmoor. Tony Stewart has grand designs to alter the ground and bring it up to 21st century standard but, oh no, the Booths merely wanted to expand their scrap business empire.

Well done Roger Stone for stopping them and putting the blockers on their business.

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What is it Roger Stone did to put 'the blockers on their business'.

I think this is a fair reflection on our clubs woes. David Conn is good on stuff like this.

https://www.theguardian.com/football...guetwofootball

The problem with Millmoor when Tony Stewart came on the scene was that Millers 05 had rendered the ground unusable by not completing the main stand. It was half built and had no facilities - no changing rooms, office space and no seating and no way of gaining a safety certificate.

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Originally Posted by WanChaiMiller

What is it Roger Stone did to put 'the blockers on their business'.

I think this is a fair reflection on our clubs woes. David Conn is good on stuff like this.

https://www.theguardian.com/football...guetwofootball

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The very first words in that article read as a salutary reminder of where we have come from, and why we must never, ever take things for granted;

"English football's most stricken club, Rotherham United, passed last Friday's life-threatening deadline ......."

ENGLISH FOOTBALL'S MOST STRICKEN CLUB. Take a minute and let that sink in, and say those words in your head the next time you walk into the New York Stadium - probably the finest stadium outside the PL and - and prepare to watch the Millers do battle in the Championship.

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Originally Posted by Grumpy King of the West

The very first words in that article read as a salutary reminder of where we have come from, and why we must never, ever take things for granted;

"English football's most stricken club, Rotherham United, passed last Friday's life-threatening deadline ......."

ENGLISH FOOTBALL'S MOST STRICKEN CLUB. Take a minute and let that sink in, and say those words in your head the next time you walk into the New York Stadium - probably the finest stadium outside the PL and - and prepare to watch the Millers do battle in the Championship.

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Absolutely.

And it was probably the same hard core who were having a go at Booth to spend his money, having a pop at Stewart to do the same in Jan 2019. They will never learn.

Some interesting ones here but Millmoor is not mentioned XD. A lot of Olympic venues. There's 40 in total if you can be bothered to page through them. Not all are still standing like Millmoor.

https://www.gamedaynews.com/sports/abandoned-stadiums/

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Originally Posted by Brin

I’m sure I read somewhere that they are the tallest floodlights of any football ground, also Millmoor was the first ground to use the full rectangular European nets as opposed to the old sloping at the back nets.

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I like the old style nets,nearly most goals nestled in the net which I don’t they do these days.remember nets at Luton once looked like they hired em from a fishing trawler...